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On the List | May Capitol Hill arts walk, Beer Week, Pink Prom, Cannabis Freedom (+24 more)

It’s time again for the monthly Capitol Hill arts walk. We’ve called out a few highlights to check out below along with a full roster of weekend activities ranging from Pink Proms to the Cannabis Freedom March. Smells arty. Smells pink. Smells like marijuana. Smells like Capitol Hill. Happy Weekend.

Tonight bring’s May’s Blitz! Art Walk. Newcomer Blindfold Gallery is exhibiting a new show, the Green Door artist studio has opened up its doors to Blitz! as well as The Compound artist studio. CHS recently spoke with Rare Medium, another collective — this one made up of transplants from the 619 Western Building.

Rare Medium, an artist collective run by Justin Mata, Cory Verellen, and Tali Edut has made settled nicely into its home here on the Hill and will be presenting the results of a recent performance/installation entitled “ENTRY” by author Ian Young. Young spent 30 hours in the studio creating a large scale written installation under the “surveillance” of passersby.


” We were interested in the performative aspect,” Mata said of the project. “We wanted to play off the fact that writing is a solitary and isolated act. We wanted to see how that could change in an environment with constant flow. This was the natural step after that.”

The piece incorporates elements of the solitary act of writing with the performative and aesthetic elements of visual arts. Young created all of the text on the spot, and incorporated a variety of inspirational objects to guide his narrative. (Among others you can find a childs glove, a fly swatter, and some “random clocks” wedged into paragraphs or placed gently to the side mimicking a footnote.) 

One of the best parts about the work? Young actually slept in the gallery during his thirty hour stint. Says Mata, “That particular weekend the weather was getting nice so it was really crazy in Cap Hill in terms of night life. Really big. People were banging on the windows at three or four am trying to wake him [Young] up.”

For a full listing of the Blitz! Art Walk events, click here. Here’s the rest of this week’s On the List:

Thursday 5/10

Friday 5/11

Saturday 5/12

Sunday 5/13 

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